From: Fractal A. (fractala@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 14:15:11 MDT
Hi,
What do you think about spying with bees who have antenna's in them? What
about bees that act as jammers?
In war time, I have a higher tolerance for the loss of privileges or rights of
privacy. In peace time, however, I'm not sure how to look at these little bees
with fractal antennas in them. I'm not sure what to think about this.
It's an odd thought and possibility.
Thanks,
Fractal A.
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Application 'Bugs' Fractal Antenna Founder
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 01:02:44 -0700
From: Tin Tin <onuj23@juno.com>
Subject: Nanotechnology Application 'Bugs' Fractal Antenna Founder ==
Finally, Fractal News == Nanotechnology Application 'Bugs' Fractal Antenna
Founder
Mon May 21 13:30:29 2001 GMT
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21,2001--
When Nathan Cohen devised antenna elements from fractal shapes (fractal
antennas) in the late 1980's, it was with the best of intentions. "I
wanted a smaller and better means of reception ", said Cohen.
These fascinating aerials can have beautiful repeating structures over
many size scales and are rapidly becoming the premier example of fractal
geometry being used in a practical way. Size reduction, multiple/broad
band frequency agility, greater reliability, and lower costs have since
become the new technology's drivers in the commercial arena.
Over a dozen years since he first experimented with fractal antennas,
Cohen now finds himself a founder of a growing science with across the
board needs in wireless, RFID, and telecom. Cohen is also Chairman and
CTO of Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc., the firm that holds a proprietary
position on the technology.
With major benefits for the wireless arena, you might say that fractal
antennas make for 'good buzz' in the halls of high tech. Others would
call them the 'bee's knees'. In more ways than one. Cohen was recently
notified that his innovation has been applied in a way
that even science fiction couldn't dream of. "There I was", said Cohen.
"drinking my morning coffee, shooing away a fly from my danish, and
reading e-mail. Several random e-mails directed me to a web site that
was
starting to show up on the search engines. I made a beeline to the web
site. What I saw made me more than a bit itchy. In fact it still stings
with surprise."
The Naval Research Laboratory report detailed work in which honey bees
and other bugs were equipped with electronic circuits--and had
microscopic etched fractal antennas attached to their abdomens. The use
of bugs with nanotechnology circuits allows for radar jamming,
bio-robotic hybrids, and even clandestine wireless monitoring. The bugs
could be bugged or be some strange form of 'Bionic Bee'. Admitted Cohen:
"Not so long ago, the disruptive technology of fractal
antennas couldn't be given away. Now we see the technology catching on
because of its distinct advantages. Attaching tiny etched fractal
antennas to bugs shows they can be easily made and work where other
antennas can't. But the question that needs to be asked is: 'should they
`bee' used where others can't?"
Cohen added: "Some bugs, such as moths, actually have evolved fractal
'antennae', but these are sensing organs and not wireless aerials. Adding
(wireless) fractal antenna to bugs sounds a bit exotic for our tastes
and
is not an authorized application of our firm's technology: in six years
under a corporate banner, we have yet to receive a request from a
beekeeper and we didn't know that bees were under the purview of the
Navy. Shouldn't it be the Air Force? In any case, anyone wishing to apply
our technology in such a biological frame will have to present compelling
reasons before we would even consider it. To us it looks like an attempt
to open Pandora's Box."
Cohen notes that the firm has always encouraged other scientists to
experiment with fractal antennas. "However", says Cohen, "when
applications are done by others, without any effort to procure a license,
that may constitute patent infringement and a deliberate effort to ignore
our intellectual property."
Cohen was clear to stress that the web-disseminated Navy report also
contains unattributed findings, and unauthorized use of copyrighted
material held by the firm. " It's still a fractal antenna whether it's
on
a PDA, a wireless water meter, or an electronically souped-up June bug,
and care must be exercised to avoid applying our technology and/or using
our copyrights without permission or compensation. We'll put a bug in
their ear, and a bee in their bonnet", assured Cohen, "but it's up to
society to judge whether we really need bugs with fractal antennas on
them--at least when they're not born with them". ABOUT FRACTAL ANTENNA
SYSTEM, INC. Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc, (
http://www.fractenna.com)
is privately
held and based in Malden, Massachusetts at Telecom City, and Belmont,
Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1995 to develop and
commercialize the antenna innovations of Nathan Cohen. It holds a
proprietary, patented, and world-wide patent pending position on fractal
element antenna technology. Cohen, a radio astronomer and physicist by
training, built the first bona fide fractal antenna element in 1988 and
was the first to show, through publication, such fractal antenna
attributes as efficient, shrunken sizes (1995); multiband (1995) and
very
wideband (1996) capabilities; use without any external matching
components (1995); gain over conventional-sized designs (1996); control
of frequency agility (1995); and other important and useful
characteristics. A review of the technology was featured in Scientific
American and available on the link:
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0799issue/0799techbus3.html. Copyright © 2001
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